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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 5: 16 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.2
Page range: 505-516
Abstract views: 185
PDF downloaded: 27

A taxonomic study of the Platydracus brachycerus group with descriptions of three new species from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae)

Department of Biology; Shanghai Normal University; 100 Guilin Road; 1 Educational Building 323 Room; Shanghai; 200234; P. R. China
Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen; Zoological Museum; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; 2100; Denmark
Department of Biology; Shanghai Normal University; 100 Guilin Road; 1 Educational Building 323 Room; Shanghai; 200234; P. R. China
Coleoptera Staphylinini new species group termitophilous

Abstract

We here propose a species group within the genus Platydracus, the brachycerus group, that is very likely associated with termites and includes three known species: Platydracus brachycerus Smetana & Davies, 2000; Platydracus juang Smetana, 2005; and Platydracus donnyi Rougemont, 2015. We also describe three new species belonging to this group, all from China: P. smetanai sp. n. (Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Guangxi), P. gracilis sp. n. (Guangxi) and P. paragracilis sp. n. (Yunnan). Platydracus juang is newly recorded from Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan provinces. A key to species of the Platydracus brachycerus group is provided.

 

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